Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
dream views hands
The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.
alcohol drug causes
I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
sky poetry storm
I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.
children live-life nurse
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
find-me ifs
Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
rivers egotism
Pissing in a river, watching it rise.
philosophy regulation rules-and-regulations
Words are just rules and regulations to me.
happens
The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
romantic love-is fire
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
mother answers mail
My mother answers all my fan mail.
fall communication territory
When I perform I always opt for communication with God and in pursuit of communicating with God you can fall into some very dangerous territory. I have also come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.
path crosses
Paths that cross will cross again
paris gutters dies
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
yesterday rocks political
Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.